Goalkeeper Brad Jones, along with teammate Stewart Downing, was bothered by something altogether different during the journey home...

Lionel Messi was awarded a fourth consecutive Ballon d'Or on Monday evening, prompting Suso to post: "11 players in the dream team and all are playing in the Spanish league. Amazing. Congratulations to the best player in history - Messi."

On Tuesday night, attention turned to the Reds' U19s - who thrashed Inter Milan 4-1 to reach the knockout stages of the NextGen Series.

Another ex-Liverpool striker was encouraged by the whole team's performance. Neil Mellor commented: "Great performance from Liverpool in the Nxt gen to comfortably beat inter 4-1. Some excellent performances throughout the team #LFC"

The calendar threw up a second birthday this week too, with midfielder Lucas Leiva reaching the age of 26...

The big news on Thursday was the long-term contract signed by young defender Andre Wisdom, who quickly revealed his delight at the announcement via Twitter...

And defensive colleague Jose Enrique sent his congratulations, tweeting: "Congratulations to Andre wisdom for his new contract."

While one player was signing on, another was signing out amid farewell messages from his pals...